HELP! THEY GOT AWAY! (Need Crowd Control)
A Blog by Rev. Grace Verrier
Last Sunday I ministered to a class of eight children, ages from Kindergarten to Grade 5. It was so easy compared to the times I have ministered to 150 to 300 children in grade school assemblies.
I remember at one school session I decided to teach on worship and to help illustrate it I had brought approximately 40 puppets to the auditorium. My plan was to play a jumpy contemporary Christian song and have the children move the puppets in time with the music. I asked the children who would want to volunteer and of course they all wanted to. I quickly pointed to children and told them to come up and put on a puppet. However, the children grabbed the puppets, put them on their hands and began to run around the gymnasium completely out of control. The teachers looked dumbfounded and I cried out to God, “Help!”
God told me to ask the children to stop and hold their breath. It worked. As they were quiet I told them to all come forward and listen to the music and do what I had originally asked. Teachers told me later that the idea definitely came from God because they had never heard of it. Needless to say, I thanked God all the way home.
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